Quiet HTPC

durant78

durant78

durant78

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Hi

This will be my third HTPC build in as many years as I am never happy, especially with the sound of the fans.

I have only one room for my media so I want it centralised, but as quiet as possible, after searching around I have come up with the following.

I would like some feedback if possible on the following build, mainly on power and any issues you might see me having.

Case: Streacom FC10 ALPHA Black Full Aluminium Fanless Case 2x USB 3.0, Slot Optical D

IR: Streacom Flirc SE Universal Remote IR Receiver

PSU: Streacom ST-ZF240 ZeroFlex 240W Passive PSU for Streacom Chassis

CPU: Intel Core i5 4570, LGA 1150, Haswell, Quad Core, 3.2GHz Base, 3.6GHz Turbo, 115

Motherboard: ASUS H97M-PLUS Intel mATX Motherboard USB 3.0, SATA 3, CrossFireX, HDMI and DVI

RAM: HyperX FURY Blue 4GB 1X4GB Memory Module DDR3 1866MHz PC3-15000 DIMM Desktop

SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 2.5" 60GB SATA III Solid State Drive

4 x 3.5 6tb HDDs (Already owned)


Any feedback welcome.
 
One thing you could try is to get the biggest heatsink you can fit in the case and run it passively.

I have a G3220 in my HTPC and run it with a Thermalright SI-128e passively. I then have no intake fans and 1x12" and 1x14" Fractal Design Silent Series fans as exhaust fans and I cannot hear my HTPC from 10 cms away from it :)
 
I reduced the fan noise of my HTPC massively by watercooling it - I placed a 360 radiator and some fans running at 7v behind the TV - it keeps an overclocked QX9650 and a 6970 cool and I can hardly hear it.

The other thing that made most of the noise in my setup was the hard drives - moving these into a different room had a massive impact too.
 
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